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NYC subway performers: We're being over-policed

Jennifer Peltz Associated Press

Updated:
08/12/2014 08:42:08 PM EDT

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FILE - In this June 17, 2014 file photo, Dashawn Martin, center, a member with the dance troupe W.A.F.F.L.E., which stands for We Are Family For Life Entertainment, performs on a subway, in New York. Subway acrobats, dancers and musicians on Tuesday, Aug 12, 2014 decried what they said was heavy-handed policing, gathering outside City Hall to join critics of a police clampdown on minor offenses. Transit rules generally allow performing for tips in parts of subway stations, but not in trains or with amplifiers, unless artists have permits. More than 240 subway performers have been arrested so far this year, about four times as many as during the same period last year, according to police statistics. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)